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The national flag of Turkey (or Republic of Türkiye), officially the Turkish flag (Turkish: Türk bayrağı), is a red flag featuring a white star and crescent on its emblem, a prominent symbol of the Ottoman Empire. The flag is often called "the red flag" (al bayrak), and is referred to as "the red banner" (al sancak) in the Turkish national anthem. The measures, geometric proportions, and exact tone of red of the flag of Turkey were legally standardized with the Turkish Flag Law on 29 May 1936.
Design[]
A red field charged with a white star and crescent slightly left-of-center.
Symbolism[]
According to legend, the crescent and star symbol came to the eponymous founder of the Ottoman house, Osman I, in the form of a dream, where he saw the moon rise from the breast from a Sheikh (The elder and official of the sect was also the leader of the Ahi organization, which was a union of tradesmen) who had a daughter that Osman I desired. When the moon became full it went it Osman's breast where beautiful tree sprang from his loins and covered the entire world. Osman then saw the world surmounted by a crescent. Even though the iconographic symbol is known to represent the Ottoman Empire and/or the Republic of Turkey, it is more often than not used to symbolise Islam by extension.
Variants[]
Presidential standard[]
History[]
The star and crescent design appears on Ottoman flags beginning in the late 18th or early 19th century. The white star and crescent on red as the flag of the Ottoman Empire were introduced in 1844. After the declaration of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, the new administrative regime maintained the last flag of the Ottoman Empire. Proportional standardisations were introduced in the Turkish Flag Law of 1936.
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